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title: "Mark Groves"
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description: "Here you will find my work on photography, adobe lightroom, open source, agile, lean and continuous deployment"
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          p Hello my name is Mark Groves I'm a <a href="http://www.codeplex.com" target="_blank" title="I work on CodePlex">software geek</a>,&nbsp;
           a <a href="#{site.url}/photographs.html" title="My Photography">photographer</a>,
           &nbsp; father, a husband, a <a href="http://runkeeper.com/user/markgroves/profile" target="_blank" title="Runkeeper Profile">runner</a>, a brewer of fine beverages.</p>
          <p>My two creative passions in life are software and photography, I'm lucky enough to make a living at one of them.</p>
          <p>This site is where I post my photography work and share my opinions.</p>
          <p>If you have an opinion share it, I'd love to know what you think of my work or anything else for that matter. </p> 
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